A form calling itself “Lottie” appeared, kissed a Medium present, and at my request passed its hands over my head and face.  Its hands were covered with luminous drapery which hung down perhaps a foot.  I was allowed to touch it.  It felt like soft tulle.  A very strong odor of sandal-wood prevailed, and the smell of phosphorus, even if it had been used, could not easily, at a little distance, have been discerned.  The luminous appearance of the drapery did not seem to be due to phosphorus—­it did not fume.  It seemed rather such as might have been produced by luminous paint—­a mixture luminous in the dark after exposure to the light.  I noticed on the hand, or what, from position, I inferred to be the hand, of the form, a distinctly phosphorescent appearance; it was on this account I asked it to touch me.  As it passed its hand over my face I distinctly smelt phosphorus.

At one time two forms appeared near each other and near the Cabinet.  They might easily have been produced by holding up luminous drapery.  Tall and then short forms then appeared one at a time.  If the drapery were raised or lowered the appearance could readily have been produced, and the person holding it would have been quite invisible.

The different voices that spoke never spoke simultaneously.  A large rug on the floor in front of the Cabinet would have prevented steps from being heard, had the form been the Medium.  On two occasions, when I suggested that I recognized the form by asking, “Is it ——?” the Spirit assented, and assumed the character.  Both the persons I mentioned are still alive.

The seance began at 8.10 P.M., and lasted two hours and a-half.  There was much singing.

The seance was regarded by several Spiritualists who were present as a very satisfactory one.  I expressly asked for their opinion.

(Written out on April 13th, from notes made in the car, on my way home from the seance.)

GEO. S. FULLERTON,

Secretary.

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January 30th, 1887.

Yesterday I visited Mrs. M.B.  Thayer, an Independent Slate Writing Medium, at 1601 North 15th Street, Philadelphia, in hopes of arranging for a seance at that time.  I had a conversation of about half an hour with Mrs. Thayer, who asked what I had seen before, and with what Mediums I had sat; but I was not able to get a sitting at once, Mrs. Thayer declaring “the conditions” unsatisfactory.  She made an appointment, however, for to-day at 4 P.M.  In the hall I met, on my departure, Mrs. Kase, the hostess of the Medium, to whom I am personally known, and who told me in an ‘aside’ that she would not reveal my identity to the Medium.  This might readily have been overheard by the Medium, who was standing close by. [I visited Mrs. Thayer alone, because she had expressed an unwillingness to appear before the Commission, and we found it necessary to visit her as private persons.]